In the conference hall, Ryutao sat in the center, Kenzaburo, Ruyoshi, and Sun Bingwei sat on the left side in turn, and Takekawa Nagaken and four of Ryutao's novice subordinates, Maeda Genyi, Masuda Nagamori, Ina Tadaji, and Okubo Yassa, sat on the right side. Follow? Dream?. lā

Long Tao looked at the four newcomers, "What are you used to living in Kaga?" ”

The four of them respectfully replied that everything was fine, and Long Tao asked Wu Chuan again: "Has the construction of the Sakura Palace begun?" ”

"I was already preparing to start construction, but because of the movements of the surrounding celebrities, I thought that training and preparing for war should be the priority, so it was temporarily shelved."

Long Tao nodded, "These surrounding daimyo are just a group of local chickens and dogs, now that I have returned, you can take the four of them to continue to prepare for the construction of the Sakura Palace, and the matter of the war will be handed over to me and San Lang and a few of them." On my way back, I passed through Echizen, and I found out that the Asakura family's army had assembled at Kitanosho Castle, and that it should be possible to attack Kaga ...... within five days."

At this time, someone outside reported: "Ashikaga-sama, Lord Reilou of the Jacobt merchant house is coming to visit!" ”

Long Tao's eyes lit up and asked, "Where are the people?" ”

"It's just outside the house."

Long Tao hurriedly got up and greeted him, Lilu and Goya were wearing long skirts, standing slim outside, followed by more than a dozen tall Dutch guards.

"Lord Yi, we've brought you a firearm." Lilu laughed.

"You're really fast! How many guns did you bring this time? ”

"You asked for five thousand muskets and ten Furlong cannons last time, and you brought them all." Goya smiled slightly, "When we entered the city, we heard that you were going to war?" Hopefully, these firearms will help. ”

Long Tao was overjoyed and said, "I can help!" This batch of firearms came just too late! Haha......" laughed as he walked up to the two sisters, hugged them and kissed them.

Wu Chuan and the other subordinates were dumbfounded, they had heard of the warm and open Nanban women, but they would never have imagined that they would do such intimate things with men in public, as for Long Tao, in their hearts, he was already a god-like strange person, no matter what he did, in their eyes, it was just a maverick and extraordinary performance.

Long Tao turned around and laughed, "Changjian, now that we have this batch of firearms, our goal is not just to repel the Asakura family...... The affairs of the Sakura Palace are handed over to Xuan Yi and Changsheng, and you can take charge of the overall command, and your priority at the moment is to train five thousand iron gunners for me as soon as possible! ”

Although Kaga's army has now grown to 20,000 men, most of them are selected from the Sakura Do, and there are not many who are proficient in the use of iron cannons.

"Also, send enough food to the Great Sage Temple City as soon as possible, I will drag the army of Chaocang there......" Long Tao was in a very good mood, so he stood outside and made arrangements.

While arranging for someone to send Lilu, Goya and others to Sakura Palace to rest, he sent people to receive the new firearms immediately, and then he split up with Takekawa, and let Takekawa lead 10,000 troops to be stationed on the northern border of Kaga, while training the iron artillery team, while shocking the two families of Tayama and Jimbo, so that they did not dare to act rashly, and Long Tao himself took 5,000 soldiers, 2,000 iron cannons and ten large barrels, and entered the Daishonji Castle.

Daishoji Castle is located in the southeast of Kaga Province, close to the border between Kaga and Echizen, and very close to the Asakura family's Kitanosho Castle, from which the Asakura family sent troops to Kaga, and Daishoji Castle bore the brunt.

Long Tao left 3,000 soldiers in the city, and only brought 2,000 men to set up a simple camp ten miles outside the city to guard the main road to the city of the Great Sage.

These two thousand people were the elite divisions who first followed him to defeat Kaga, not only accurate archery, but also good martial arts, and they were all capable of conscription.

Two days later, spies came to report that the 5,000-strong troops of the Asakura family had marched towards the Great Sage Temple Castle.

"Only five thousand? Hum! The Asakura family really didn't take me seriously. Long Tao smiled coldly, "Let's give him a dismount first." ”

Long Tao led two thousand iron artillery to meet the attack, he had already set up layers of fences as barriers, the cavalry of the Asakura family could not attack, and the infantry was difficult to get close for a while, two thousand iron gunners shot behind the fence, and the first layer of fence was washed away and retreated to the back layer, so that while fighting and retreating, without hurting a single person, nearly 3,000 enemies were annihilated.

The remaining Asakura army did not dare to attack again and quickly fled back to Echizen.

After losing the first battle, the Asakura family shook up and down, and Asakura Yoshikei then sent another 10,000 troops to fight back to Daishoji Castle again.

Long Tao led the crowd to resist outside the city for a while, and after destroying more than 1,000 enemies, it seemed that it was difficult to support it anymore, and retreated to the city of Dasheng Temple, and defended the city.

The Asakura family besieged the city for ten days, and under the suppression of the vitality of the iron cannon, they lost nearly 2,000 people, and when the army defending the city seemed to be unable to hold on, the city suddenly sounded with an earth-shattering roar, and two large cylinders joined the battlefield, instantly reversing the situation and repelling a round of onslaught by the Asakura army.

At this point, nearly half of the 10,000 troops of the Asakura family had been lost, and the remaining more than 5,000 people were stationed outside the city, and while suppressing the Daisage Temple Castle, they sent people back to Ichijo Valley Castle to ask for help.

Asakura Yoshikei sent an additional 10,000 troops on the one hand, and asked for help from the Asakura family's allies for decades, the Asai family in Kita-Omi, and at the same time sent a request for reinforcements to Ishiyama Honganji, after all, this war was also fought in large part to help Honganji Xianru take revenge.

After the arrival of 10,000 Asakura reinforcements, the continuous onslaught on the castle of Daishoji was relaunched, and the city suddenly increased its firepower when it was clear that it could no longer hold on, and three more large barrels were added, and the number of muskets seemed to have increased, and as a result, the Asakura family lost another 5,000 people in a few days.

Before you know it, the Asakura family's army has lost more than 10,000 people, which no one expected at the beginning of the war, who would have thought that a small Daisage temple castle would become a Shura slaughterhouse.

All of this is naturally due to Long Tao's plan, he deliberately made all kinds of illusions, so that the Asakura army felt that there was hope of breaking the city, and kept sending reinforcements, the purpose was to inadvertently consume the Asakura family's army little by little.

You know, the entire Asakura family only has more than 40,000 troops, and now they have lost more than 10,000 people, and they thought that they could easily sweep away Kaga, but who would have thought that they would fall into a quagmire in front of a city.

Many of the Asakura generals had already thought of withdrawing, and it was at this time that reinforcements from Asai and Honganji finally arrived, and the number of the coalition forces increased to 25,000.

The firepower of the defenders in the city was no longer retained, and all the ten large cylinders were activated, and the besieging troops suffered heavy losses.

Seeing that the firepower in the city was too strong, the coalition forces suspended the siege, and they surrounded the city of the Great Holy Temple, looking at this formation, they wanted to trap this place into a dead city.

At this time, a month and a half had passed since the start of the war, and just as the three coalition forces were camped outside the city and preparing to fight a long war, Wuchuan Changjian had already led 10,000 troops and quietly sneaked to the pre-planned location with Long Tao near the Great Sage Temple City.

In the middle of the night, the gate of the Great Sage Temple City was opened, Long Tao took three thousand elites to kill out, these three thousand people were riding the war horses that were transported into the Great Sage Temple City in advance, in addition to spears and long knives, everyone was also equipped with iron cannons, under the blessing of the "Wind Forest Volcano", the tiger entered the flock of sheep, and killed into the camp of the coalition army.

On the other side, Wuchuan Changjian also cooperated with the action, first bombarding the coalition camp with a large cylinder to create chaos, and then the 5,000 iron artillery team and 5,000 infantry went out together to intercept and kill the coalition troops and horses that had been disrupted by Long Tao's elite cavalry on the periphery.

In this period, Long Tao annihilated 8,000 enemies, captured nearly 10,000 soldiers, and only 6 or 7,000 people fled in a hurry on the coalition side, and the Asakura family suffered heavy losses, and a total of 25,000 people were sent to attack Kaga before and after, and the entire army was almost annihilated.

After the victory, Long Tao did not rest, the Asakura family suffered serious losses, it was the time to beat the water dogs, he left Wuchuan Changjian to deal with the surrender of troops, personally led 10,000 troops to chase the deserters into the Echizen country, all the way to capture the main city of the Asakura family.

Asakura Yoshikage committed suicide by cutting his abdomen, and the death of all the families surrendered, and the Asakura family perished, and the Echizen country was all in the hands of Long Tao.

The Ryutao garrison was repairing at Ichijo Valley Castle, and while sending an envoy to Asai's house to hold him accountable for helping Asakura attack on Kaga, he asked Asai Nagamasa to personally go to Isseri Valley Castle to kowtow to Ryutao to make amends.

As a generation of daimyo and the head of the Asai family, Asai Nagamasa naturally would not agree.

Half a month later, Long Tao led his army straight into Kita-Omi and besieged Kotani Castle, the residence of Asai Nagamasa.

The strength of the Asai family was already much weaker than that of the Asakura family, with a total strength of less than 20,000, and they lost more than 2,000 people in the battle of Daishoji Castle, and the defenders in Kotani Castle at this time were only more than 6,000 people, and the rest of the forces were scattered in the other two cities.

Under the bombardment of Long Tao's ten gates, the fall of Kotani Castle was only a matter of two or three days, and the retainer of the Asai family, the lord of Sawa Mountain Castle, Isono Chang, was afraid of Long Tao's military might and did not dare to send troops to rescue.

Three days later, Otani Castle fell, and Asai Nagamasa committed suicide in the castle tower, destroying the Asai family, and then Isono surrendered to Ryutao, and the entire Kita-Omi River was under his command.

For more than two months, Long Tao wiped out the Asakura family and the Asai family, and pocketed Echizen and Kita-Omi, and the matter suddenly spread throughout Japan!

The prestige of the Ashikaga Yoshishi has spread far and wide, and the limelight has even far overshadowed Oda Nobunaga, who had just won a surprise victory in the barrel narrow not long ago.

Both the government and the opposition were talking about the name of the Ashikaga Yoshiji, and a new star quickly rose on the Sengoku stage and shook the whole of Japan.